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Virginity is One Skill For Which “No Experience” Is Highly Valued

In 2004, 24-year-old Cathy Cobblerson from Texas, broke virginity auction records, when she placed an advertisement to auction her virginity, with a minimum price tag of U.S. $ 100,000/- on E-Bay. The auction was taken down and it was not clear whether or not another auction, from the same girl took place elsewhere.

2. Rosie Reid

In 2004, 18-year-old Rosie Reid from London, sold her virginity to a bidder. A 44 year aged British Telecom engineer, who was a divorcee. He reportedly paid her, £ 8,400. It was the girl’s first time with a man. However, she already had a lesbian lover, who reportedly waited outside the door, while Rosie was “obliged” to serve her buyer. It was also reported that the lesbian lovers “just cried and cried” the next morning!

3. Graciela Yataco

In 2005, 18-year-old Graciela Yataco, a model from Peru, was responsible for her mother’s medical bills. She also had to support her younger brother. So she decided, in an unprecedented move, to sell her virginity to the highest bidder. She auctioned her virginity for U. S. $ $ 1,300,000 to a 56 year old Arab man, Nasir Al Sadhan, from Saudi Arabia, who reportedly hired the Pent House suite for the night, at Hotel Monasterio Del Cusco, high in the Andes Mountains at Cuzco in Peru, and successfully took her virginity. He reportedly also paid all costs to fly her and her mother, to & fro the resort & also paid a bonus of $ 10,000 to her mother, after the event.

4. Natalie Dylan

In 2008, 22-year-old Natalie Dylan, received a bid of $ 3.7 million, after auctioning her virginity through Moonlite Bunny Ranch to fund her master’s degree. She publicized her auction on The Howard Stern Show. Maybe Natalie Dylan was for real, but the whole thing did seem strange. If a girl was really going to hold out until 22 to lose her virginity, would she be the type to sell it to the highest bidder in a nationally publicized auction? But still, a Qatari national, Sheikh Nafeez bin Sultan bin Thamim Al-Thani, reportedly paid that amount and flew into Kentucky. It is reported that he hired the entire top floor, of the Brown Hotel, in Louisville Kentucky, for the night & successfully took her virginity.

5. Alina Percea

In 2009, 18-year-old Alina Percea from Romania, auctioned her virginity so that she could afford to pay for her computing degree. She received a top bid of $ 1,500,000/- from an old Australian billionnaire. Reportedly the 62 year-old man paid for her trip to Venice. At Venice, he made her go through two medical exams to prove that she’s still a virgin before the big event. He reportedly hired a cottage at the luxurious Venice on the Beach, hotel and kept her with him for 3 nights. She claimed that on the first night he simply romanced her and did not even touch her. Apparently, he took her virginity, only on the second night.

6. Raffaella Fico

In 2009, Raffaella Fico, a 20-year-old Italian model and star of Big Brother Italy 2008, put her virginity up for auction to buy a house in Rome and pay for acting classes. She swore she’d never had a boyfriend. Fico promised to drop her panties for $ 1.8 million. She said, “If I don’t like him, I’ll just have a glass of wine, return the money and forget about it! ”

8. Catarina Migliorini

In 2013, a Brazilian student sold her virginity for a staggering $ 1,780,000 after she put it up for auction online. A 52 year old man called Kosuke Ishikawa, from Japan, fended off strong competition from two American bidders, and an Indian big-spender, to take the virginity of 20-year-old Catarina Migliorini. Kosuke Ishikawa flew her at his own cost, into Osaka, where again, she had to undergo virginity tests. Later, reportedly he invited her into his own villa, where he took her virginity. It is further reported, that he was so happy after the event, that he gave her a further sum of $ 220,000, and kept her with him for another week, before she was allowed to fly off back to Brazil!

Back in Brazil, Catarina insists that, she is not a prostitute and that she is only doing this to make a positive impact on the world by raising money to build homes for poverty-stricken families in her hometown! The physical education student has sparked a controversy by having a Brazilian film crew follow her every move for a documentary entitled “Virgins Wanted!”

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ALAIWAH'S PHILOSOPHY
About 12 years ago, while studying Arabic in Cairo, I became friends with some Egyptian students. As we got to know each other better we also became concerned about each other’s way of life. They wanted to save my soul from eternally burning in hell by converting me to Islam. I wanted to save them from wasting their real life for an illusory afterlife by converting them to the secular worldview I grew up with.
In one of our discussions they asked me if I was sure that there is no proof for God’s existence.
The question took me by surprise. Where I had been intellectually socialized it was taken for granted that there was none.
I tried to remember Kant’s critique of the ontological proof for God. “Fine,” Muhammad said, “but what about this table, does its existence depend on a cause?” “Of course,” I answered. “And its cause depends on a further cause?” Muhammad was referring to the metaphysical proof for God’s existence, first formulated by the Muslim philosopher
Avicenna.
Avicenna argues, things that depend on a cause for their existence must have something that exists through itself as their first cause. And this necessary existent is God. I had a counter-argument to that to which they in turn had a rejoinder. The discussion ended inconclusively.
I did not convert to Islam, nor did my Egyptian friends become atheists. But I learned an important lesson from our discussions: that I hadn’t properly thought through some of the most basic convictions underlying my way of life and worldview — from God’s existence to the human good.
The challenge of my Egyptian friends forced me to think hard about these issues and defend views that had never been questioned in the milieu where I came from.
These discussions gave me first-hand insight into how deeply divided we are on fundamental moral, religious and philosophical questions. While many find these disagreements disheartening, I will argue that they can be a good thing — if we manage to make them fruitful for a culture debate.
Can we be sure that our beliefs about the world match how the world actually is and that our subjective preferences match what is objectively in our best interest? If the truth is important to us these are pressing questions.
We might value the truth for different reasons: because we want to live a life that is good and doesn’t just appear so; because we take knowing the truth to be an important component of the good life; because we consider living by the truth a moral obligation independent of any consequences; or because we want to come closer to God who is the Truth. Of course we wouldn’t hold our beliefs and values if we weren’t convinced that they are true. But that’s no evidence that they are.
Weren’t my Egyptian friends just as convinced of their views as I was of mine? More generally: don’t we find a bewildering diversity of beliefs and values, all held with great conviction, across different times and cultures? If considerations such as these lead you to concede that your present convictions could be false, then you are a fallibilist.
And if you are a fallibilist you can see why valuing the truth and valuing a culture of debate are related: because you will want to critically examine your beliefs and values, for which a culture of debate offers an excellent setting.
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